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This star-shaped ceramic tile is decorated with floral patterns and shapes. This kind of tile seems to be very popular in the 15th and 16th centuries of the Iranian Islamic world. The relief decoration is moulded and unglazed while the ground is glazed in blues with black underglaze and covered with a clear overglaze. 
Iranian (Iranian)
Star-shaped tile with molded floral design
1400 – 1599
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.135

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Ling (bell)
8400 BCE
The Oliver J. Todd Memorial Collection
1974/1.139
A page from a manuscript depicting a woman, kneeling to be crowned, while a standing man blesses her. She is surrounded by a court of angels in an architectural setting in the clouds.
Coronation of the Virgin
1508
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.558
Shoe with a leather sole attached to a cloth lining with metal tacks. The outside of the shoe is covered in multi-colored beadwork; the toe has a pattern of zig-zags in orange, black, and white while the sides and upper flaps have an interlacing pattern in cream, red, blue, and orange. The top of the shoe is bound with red cloth along the edge. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Oba's Slipper (One of a pair)
20th century
Gift of the Honorable Jack Faxon
1998/2.63.1
A petite cup with an abstract floral design in blue and white covering the outside of the cup and inside rim. The outside rim is gold and slightly everted. It has a large foot with blue stripes.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white tea cup with abstract floral design (1 of 5)
1400 – 1599
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.519
This is a round bottomed bowl on three legs with high straight sides and and everted rim. It is covered in a green celadon craqueleur glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Incense Burner
15th century
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.108
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.190
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.191
Shiva stands on a tiny base with little feet in a strict unbending stance. The body is elongated with a small waist, the hips billowing out and tapering in a stylized way to the feet. He has broad shoulders and has four arms. Reading in a clockwise direction from the right front hand, he holds, a sword, another sword, a bow and a shield. He wears a lot of jewelry, necklaces that cover his entire chest, at least three belts with pendant decorations and what appears to be a bustle like garment that billows out from his waist and has a beaded border that curves down across his legs below his knees. He wears large earrings and a crown decorated with a disk for the sun and crescent for the moon. He has large wide opened eyes and what almost looks like two sets of eyebrows, a dot where his third eye should be and a luxurious moustache.<br />
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Shiva standing
1400 – 1599
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leo S. Figiel, & Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Figiel
1978/2.116
Long hanging scroll with printed gold and blue cloth on either side of the image. Image depicts an aged man sitting on a rock holding a relic in his right hand. A halo sits around his head. Above and behind him are waves and more rocks, suggesting he is seated on a rocky outcropping near a mass of water. The colors are heavily faded, though the robe around the man is primarily gold, with green and red accenting.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Arhat with Reliquary, (one of a pair)
1400 – 1599
Gift of the Hays Family - Frances Blakiston, James Griffith IV, Edward Lukens, and Charles Campbell - in memory of their grandmother, Mary Campbell Hays
2019/2.82
A petite cup with an abstract floral design in blue and white covering the outside of the cup and inside rim. The outside rim is gold and slightly everted. It has a large foot with blue stripes.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white tea cup with abstract floral design (1 of 5)
1400 – 1599
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.517

Iranian (Iranian)
Star-shaped tile with molded floral arabesque design
1400 – 1599
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.134
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